Tillerson is scheduled to meet South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is serving as the acting President after former President Park Geun-hye was ousted.

After the meeting, he will hold a joint press conference with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se here.

Key agenda on the table for Friday's talks between Yun and Tillerson would be the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

Tillerson said in Tokyo on Thursday that diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to realise the denuclearisation of the peninsula have failed, stressing the need for a new approach to the issue. --IANS